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The Dread Wyrm

By: Miles Cameron
Narrated by: Neil Dickson
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 SOME ARE BORN TO POWER
SOME SEIZE IT
AND SOME HAVE THE WISDOM NEVER TO WIELD IT

The Red Knight has stood against soldiers, against armies and against the might of an empire without flinching. He's fought on real and on magical battlefields alike, and now he's facing one of the greatest challenges yet.
A tournament.
A joyous spring event, the flower of the nobility will present arms and ride against each other for royal favour and acclaim. It's a political contest - and one which the Red Knight has the skill to win. But the stakes may be higher than he thinks. The court of Alba has been infiltrated by a dangerous faction of warlike knights, led by the greatest knight in the world: Jean de Vrailly - and the prize he's fighting for isn't royal favour, but the throne of Alba itself.
Where there is competition there is opportunity; the question is, will the Red Knight take it? Or will the creatures of the Wild seize their chance instead . . .
'A stirring, gritty and at times quite brutal epic fantasy' Tor.com

'This series promises to be the standout epic fantasy for the ages' Fantasy Book Critic

Read by Neil Dickson

(p) 2015 Hachette Audio©2015 Miles Cameron Dark Fantasy Epic Epic Fantasy Fantasy Fiction Historical Military Classics Royalty

Critic Reviews

To conclude, as a pit stop on the way to the end "The Dread Wyrm" serves marvelously well. If anything, it is way too short. It does all that it's supposed to do: it enriches the world, expands upon the overall story and its main characters but more importantly, it entertains.
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This book takes a bit longer to get rolling than some of the others in this series, but it really kicks off about half way through.

The only major issue I have is the narrator, he's isn't bad at all. But he isn't as good as the first one, and he seems to have an issue with changing pronunciations of characters and places, with them changing throughout the book.

A slow burn, but well worth the listen!

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loved this edition, author makes it easy to immerse yourself in the fantasy world he's built.

great book and series

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I agree that M Wolf was better as narrator and this series would have been 100% awesome if he'd stayed on, but the stories and the interesting little historical accuracies about knights, armor, fighting and campaigns still make the series worthwhile. The narrator did not annoy me as much as I thought - it was just the initial change at the start of this book that felt jarring and perhaps the fact that some characters accents were changed to the point of ridiculousness (for instance, Tom sounds like a strong dude you wouldn't want to mess with in the first two books- even a bit of an attractive accent- but then this narrator makes him sound like an old pirate and it is laughable). The story was good and I found myself on the edge of my seat at times with some interesting twists and turns.

Despite the change in narrator I still enjoyed it

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As everyone mentions; the change in narrator is distracting and noticeable.
From mispronunciation, not singing where previous one did, to completely different interpretations of voices/ and age associated, it’s quite annoying. Although I do prefer red knights brothers voice and character choice here.

The story was epic.
I’m in constant surprise and shock at the authors ability to have such an army of characters names and that I recall so many of them.
Bigger battles, bigger stakes and a constantly evolving story.
I loved this book from the get go..

Am beyond excited for the last 2!

Epic story.. gets bigger and better with each book

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I love everything Mr Cameron writes. Wolfe was magnificent in books 1 and 2. The poor pronunciation and characterization of the characters in this performance was butchered almost as badly as each of the armies at Gilson’s hole. It’s only my love of the writer’s epic tale that saw me grit my teeth and barrel through every mispronunciation of Lorika and Halberdiers amongst others!

Where is Matthew Wolfe

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